I’m using Warhammer Fantasy Battle 8th Edition as a guide for collecting and painting various forces. Going for a modest 1,000 points still turns out to be quite a few models as I want to start with the rank and file of each army, leaving the fancier and more costly elements for later expansions.
The overall largest faction of painted models in my collection are the Vampire Counts. So rather than forming them into one army I decided to split them into themed sub-factions with the intention of sharing little to no models between them.
The first faction I am considering finished is a force led by a Vampire Count. Himself armed with two sharp blades to revel in carnage, the mundane task of raising and maintaining his undead horde falls to a Necromancer in his service.
The Vampire Lord reclaims his domain
The skeleton regiments are built from three generations of plastic sets with some extra bits taken from Chaos Marauders. The zombies are a mixture of Citadel metal and plastic figures.
All resistance was swiftly cut off
There is no stopping the march of the dead
Defeated foes soon swell the ranks of the undead
The Vampire Lord is the metal sculpt of Konrad von Carstein, while the Necromancer is the newer plastic kit.
The Vampire Lord savours his success
The Necromancer does his master’s bidding
The hunting beasts that have followed the call of their vampiric master are the early plastic wolves with some metal add-ons, a swarm of bats and a flock of giant Fell Bats.
Dire Wolves haunt the shattered town
Bats flock from the city’s catacombs
Fell Bats emerge from between the graves
The other two factions I am working on are Ghoul Kings (ghouls, zombies and monsters) and Necromancers (massed ranks of zombies and skeletons). Once they are all assembled, the Old World will tremble before the armies of the dead!